Concern on filling Engineering Seats

Updated on: Wednesday, May 06, 2015

For the last two years, over one lakh engineering seats in the state was vacant. Last year, 20,876 more seats were vacant compared to 2013-14. Officials have verified 590 colleges this year and the report will be submitted to the Syndicate shortly.

This year’s single-window counselling includes seats in 570 engineering colleges, which includes 508 self-financing engineering institutions, 34 architectural engineering, 13 university constituent colleges, 10 State government colleges and two central government institutions. All India Council for Technical Education rejected the applications of four new colleges to admit students. The final seat matrix will be available by May 15.

Educational consultant Jayaprakash Gandhi said, “when more students stay away from engineering courses, colleges with poor performance will be closed. “More than 100 colleges has recorded less than 30 per cent pass percentage. Some colleges also converted their infrastructure to run schools or arts and science colleges,” he said.

Concern on filling Engineering Seats

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